Father draws up legal contract with daughter, 14, promising to pay her $200 if she can stay off Facebook for five months

A corporate executive has found one way to get his teenage daughter to spend less time on Facebook and more time on her studies - a bribe.
Scott Baier made his daughter Rachel sign a contact promising she would quit the social networking site from February until class gets out at the end of June.
Mr Baier, the vice president for sustainability and research at Boston-based Groom Energy Solutions, posted the contract on his blog.

 Airtight: Paul Baier made his daughter Rachel sign a contract before he agreed to pay her $200 to quit Facebook

He said in the post that quitting Facebook was his daughter's idea - and one that he fully supports.
'I've realized that she is part of generation of kids that has grown up on Facebook. She's been on it for two years full time,' Mr Baier told Yahoo News.

'This is two years of 24/7 teen discussion of friends, clothes, parties, etc. They can't get away from it. I'm proud she recognized the benefit of a hiatus. She plans to go on using it after the contract end.'
Mr Baier, a graduate of the Harvard University School of Business, said his daughter is an honors student, but she admits that she is distracted by the social networking site. 
Rachel's five-month hiatus from Facebook is common. A recent Pew Internet and American Life study found that 61percent of Facebook users had quit Facebook for several weeks at a time on at least one occasion.

Giving it up: Rachel, a high school freshman, struck a deal with her dad Paul Baier to give up Facebook

Most users don't quit permanently, though, and come back to the social networking site after a few weeks or months.
That is Rachel Baier's plan. The contract stipulates that Baier will be paid $50 in April and the final $150 in June when school lets at.
By that time, she said, she will be back online - and $200 wealthier.
She handed over her password to her father so that he could deactivate her account and change her password so she can't sneak online and break the contract without his knowledge.